I was just in the Met's Drawing, Prints & Photographs hall (my favorite part of the museum) and discovered the street photography of Helen Levitt for the first time. I'm probably the last person to find out about her and of course I only do so two months after she died. Now I'm off to try and find a used copy of her famous book A Way of Seeing for considerably less than the $2500 dollars it's valued at...

Yaw - Where Would You BeCurtis Mayfield - So In LoveLauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)Sharon Jones - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You (Ticklah Remix)Inell Young - What Do You See in Her?Mos Def - Ms. Fat BootyPressure - Love & AffectionJazmine Sullivan - Need U BadBob Marley & the Wailers - Burnin' and Lootin'

I just discovered ubu.com, specifically its Cory Arcangel page. I still remember his hand hacked Clouds piece as being the only interesting piece at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The ubu website has a bunch of his stuff, including his collaboration with Paper Rad where they again hand hacked a Mario Brothers cartridge to create a ravey movie:

See, they put a piece of video art free online and the world didn't end! Of course Cory and Paper Rad get all the praise and meanwhile some dude on youtube makes this hack (and makes you laugh) and gets nothing:

Without maintenance, skyscrapers' windows would soon fall out and let the elements in. Weeds, insects, and vermin would move in in quick succession creating vertical ecosystems. The descendants of household cats would soon follow.

"I can picture New York City with all the buildings covered with vines, you know, hawks sailing around, it would be lovely, it would be absolutely lovely. I suppose, if you wanted to be really imaginative about it, you could say that eventually they [cats] could be like flying squirrels and so on. They could glide from places. The possibility is always there for some imaginative responses to this unusual environment."—Ray Coppinger, Hampshire College

Park Avenue South:

Minetta Street:

The Empire State Building collapses:

El Train:

City Hall Park:

The Brooklyn Bridge bites it:

"Zoo animals are really the great unknown, depending on whether or not they could escape from their confinement, then things change dramatically because you might have lions, you might have tigers, both of which would be capable of surviving in a post-human period."—John Hadidian, urban ecologist with the Humane Society Of The United States

One sad thing I learned about the post-human future is that the expanding shell of radio and TV signals that I thought would forever preserve our memory will in fact dissipate into noise within two light years, long before it reaches the nearest star.